1934 in Belgium
# 1934 in Belgium

Events in the year 1934 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

    Monarch – Albert I (until 17 February); Leopold III (from 23 February)
    Prime Minister – Charles de Broqueville (to 20 November); Georges Theunis (from 20 November)

## Events

* 6 January – First electrified railway between Brussels and Antwerp taken into $use.^{:833}$
* 22 February – Funeral of King Albert $I.^{:834}$
* 23 February – Leopold III sworn in as King, following the death of his father Albert I, on 17 $February.^{:834}$
* 28 March – Socialist savings bank Bank van de Arbeid goes $bankrupt.^{:833}$
* 16 May – Firedamp explosion in Fief-de-Lambrechies and Pâturages kills $57.^{:835}$
* 31 May – Law on languages in law cases passes $Parliament.^{:833}$
* 13 November – De Broqueville government $resigns.^{:834}$
* 20 November – New government led by Georges Theunis takes $office.^{:835}$
* 26 November – Meteorite impact near $Roisin.^{:833}$

## Publications

* Henry De Vocht, Monumenta Humanistica Lovaniensia: Texts and Studies about Louvain Humanists in the First Half of the XVIth Century

## Art and architecture

* 29 March – Surrealist group Rupture founded in La $Louvière.^{:833}$

### Exhibitions

* May–June – Le Minotaure $(Brussels).^{:833}$

### Films

* Belgium's first Dutch-language sound film, De Witte, screened in Antwerp (13 $September).^{:835}$

## Births

* 21 January – François van Hoobrouck d'Aspre, politician (died 2020)
* 6 June – Birth of Prince Albert

## Deaths

* 9 February – Henri Van Dyck (born 1849), painter
* 17 February – King Albert (born 1875)
